Traditionally, the month of Phalguna, or February-March, was the month for harvesting Jawar. - Jola( In kannada) . There were no tools and machines to do this in the past.
As a result, cultivators used to create Hanti to separate the Jawar grains from the jawar corn pile- Tene. The place where the jawar corns were seperated from the pile through the roaming of bullocks and oxes is known as 'Hanti-Kana'. Bullocks and oxes were used for walking on the piles of Jawar put on this Kana.. They used to sing while executing this task.- hanti. These compositions are referred to as Hanti-Padagalu--Music of Hanti.
This procedure used to take several weeks. Typically, the granules are removed at night and cleaned in the morning. Cleaning entails separating granules from grime. Farmers used to sing these hanti padagalu all night long this week. These hantipadagalu are folk melodies with deep significance that praise God.. These hantipadagalu are the folksongs with lot of meaning.
Our generation has not seen these things as now a days the harvesting is done through machines. Hanti moved into the background when the machine came to the corn pile. Since Hanti is no more, Hanti's action-related songs are gradually fading. In the changing times, no one can stop such a transition. Earlier in all the fields, farmers use to stay in the fields and harvest the grains using Hanti. And they help each other harvesting with the oxes, manual resources etc. Now all these are fading in this machinary world.
However, the traces of hard work, happiness, and coexistence that were once part of our agricultural culture should be preserved in the form of articles, books, and videos; all of this must be convincing for the present. With such optimism, the farmers of Bilgi, led by Shri. V G Revadigar, vice-president of the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, North Division, arranged a display of Hanti and Hanti songs on Thursday, 2-3-2023, at 6 p.m. The place was : Sri Basava School, Kalyana Nagar, Jamkhandi Road, Bilgi.
Congratulations to the Gurus who presided over the programme, Dr. Shriram Ittannavara sir who directed and coordinated the programme , the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh state president and office bearers, and Dr. Bhaskar, Vice-Chancellor of Haveri District Folklore University, Vice-Chancellor of Haveri District Folklore University, and Chancellor Shri Guru Prasad who unexpectedly participated in the programme and graced the programme. Also the whole farmers and the citizens of Bilgi who participated and made the programme a successful. Farmers participated and sang lot of Hanti padagalu. And people were ablr to see the whole process of Hanti how it use to happen in the earlier days. Below are the videos and photos of this :
Hanti Kana- Pooja Before start of the hanti:
Bullock and oxes Pooja before the start of Hanti:
Putting of Jawar Corn piles to the Kana:
While bullocks are doing their job, they sing the Hanti Songs. Here are some videos of it:
After the whole night of this hanti, the cleaning process start. Please see the cleaning process in the below video:
After cleaning this, they put these grains in the bags. Now when this while programme is completed, they congratulated all the people who involved and made this happen. This was really a awesome experience. Thanks to all who made this awesome programme
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